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Table 2 Genetic diversity among indel haplotypes for MSP-3α

From: Merozoite surface protein-3 alpha as a genetic marker for epidemiologic studies in Plasmodium vivax: a cautionary note

Indel haplotype

Gene length (bp)

n

Average pairwise divergence per site (SE)

Geographic origin of isolates

At all informative sites among the group

At sites shared by all isolates

1

1788

4

0.013 (0.002)

0.014 (0.002)

New Guinea, Thailand

2

2100

2

0.019 (0.003)

0.009 (0.002)

Thailand

3

2559

5

0.033 (0.003)

0.022 (0.003)

Malaysia, El Salvador, Thailand

4

2550

2

0.060 (0.005)

0.025 (0.004)

Indonesia, Thailand

5

2538

5

0.040 (0.003)

0.026 (0.003)

Mauritania, Bangladesh, Brazil, Thailand

6

2577

2

0.013 (0.002)

0.016 (0.003)

Panama, Thailand

7

2271

7

0.007 (0.001)

0.004 (0.001)

Venezuela

  1. Nucleotide diversity and its standard error (SE) among the 7 indel haplotypes exhibited by more than one P. vivax sample (n) is shown.